Weather Underground Plugin

Hi haavarda
Assuming that you are running the latest version 0.3.4 of the plugin, check that the units are set to Metric in the Wunderground device settings.

Colin

Hi,
Thank you for your plugin. I have just started to use it, and it appears to be very good!
I have one ting I find strange.
When I try to export the HI and LOW temperatures to a variable I get the value in F instead of C. The current temperature is reported in C. Any thoughts?

regards

Hello haavarda - thanks for the kind words.

In order to understand your problem, I need a little bit more information. How are you exporting the value to a variable? It would help if you could include any relevant Python or AppleScript code as well.

Thanks @Colin for chiming in--I presume that you see forecast values in C as expected?

Dave

Thanks @Colin for chiming in--I presume that you see forecast values in C as expected?

Dave

I am seeing the correct values now thanks. I noticed I'm getting the following error before parsing ( every 15 mins).. but I'm ignoring it.

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  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertStatus not defined (ignoring update request)
  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertDescription not defined (ignoring update request)
  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertMessage not defined (ignoring update request)
  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertExpires not defined (ignoring update request)
  Wunderground                    Weather Underground data parsed successfully.



Hi,

Thanks so much for this plugin. Finally accurate weather for the place where I live (Europe/Belgium).

The plugin works fine but occasionally it throws up this error:

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Wunderground                    Weer Balen: pws:IANTWERP23
  Wunderground Error              Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 203, in runConcurrentThread
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 221-222: ordinal not in range(128)

  Wunderground Error              plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)


This results in a mail from Wunderground giving me a 'wunderground API usage alert'.
Reloading the plugin immediately gives the same error.
Have to wait a while before it wil work again.

Hate the ascii-encoding problem here in Europe.
Hope you have a solution?

Greetings,
Adrian

Thanks @Colin for chiming in--I presume that you see forecast values in C as expected?

Dave

I am seeing the correct values now thanks. I noticed I'm getting the following error before parsing ( every 15 mins).. but I'm ignoring it.

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  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertStatus not defined (ignoring update request)
  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertDescription not defined (ignoring update request)
  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertMessage not defined (ignoring update request)
  Error                           device "Wunderground" state key alertExpires not defined (ignoring update request)
  Wunderground                    Weather Underground data parsed successfully.



Please open each weather device, select Edit Device Settngs, and then select Save (you needn't change any settings.) That should solve the problem. Please let me know if that's not the case.

Hi,

Thanks so much for this plugin. Finally accurate weather for the place where I live (Europe/Belgium).

The plugin works fine but occasionally it throws up this error:

Code: Select all

Wunderground                    Weer Balen: pws:IANTWERP23
  Wunderground Error              Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 203, in runConcurrentThread
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 221-222: ordinal not in range(128)

  Wunderground Error              plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)


This results in a mail from Wunderground giving me a 'wunderground API usage alert'.
Reloading the plugin immediately gives the same error.
Have to wait a while before it wil work again.

Hate the ascii-encoding problem here in Europe.
Hope you have a solution?

Greetings,
Adrian

Thanks for the kind words. This should be an easy fix. I will try to post an updated version of the plugin tonight (North American night, that is.)

To help me isolate the offending code, can you please let me know what version of the plugin you are using?

Best to disable it until I post a fix as the plugin is making a call to Weather Underground every time it tries to reload.

Thanks.

Please open each weather device, select Edit Device Settngs, and then select Save (you needn't change any settings.) That should solve the problem. Please let me know if that's not the case.

Hi Dave
Did as you suggested but I'm still getting the errors. I could always delete the device and add a new one.

Colin

Hi,

To help me isolate the offending code, can you please let me know what version of the plugin you are using?

I'm on version 0.3.3.
Thanks for the help.

Greetings,
Adrian

Hi,
Thank you for your plugin. I have just started to use it, and it appears to be very good!
I have one ting I find strange.
When I try to export the HI and LOW temperatures to a variable I get the value in F instead of C. The current temperature is reported in C. Any thoughts?

regards

Hello haavarda - thanks for the kind words.

In order to understand your problem, I need a little bit more information. How are you exporting the value to a variable? It would help if you could include any relevant Python or AppleScript code as well.

Thanks @Colin for chiming in--I presume that you see forecast values in C as expected?

Dave

Hi,
Thanks for your help.
I have set the settins to C. And as I mentioned other values like current temperature is presented in C.
I am as of now only exporting the values to a variable with the built in function in indigo.
Trigger when High Today has any change. Action is insert device state into variable. So I am not using any scripts.

Another question is how I can get the condition represented as an icon. Is that described somewhere? I have only found some scripts and information that is from 2011 i think...

regards

@haavarda - I have figured out what was causing the celcius forecast to come through as fahrenheit. The plugin was downloading the metric forecast properly, but this value was then being instantly overwritten with fahrenheit values.

This will be fixed in v0.3.5.

Sorry for the trouble.
Dave

@Colin:

Please do me a favor and inspect the custom states for one of your weather devices--do you see blocks of states for:

alertDescription[1-4]
alertExpires[1-4]
alertMessage[1-4]
alertStatus[1-4]

Thanks,
Dave

This results in a mail from Wunderground giving me a 'wunderground API usage alert'.
Reloading the plugin immediately gives the same error.
Have to wait a while before it wil work again.

Hate the ascii-encoding problem here in Europe.
Hope you have a solution?

Greetings,
Adrian

I think I've determined what's causing the problem. I'll be making v0.3.5 available as soon as possible which will (hopefully) address it.

Dave

Version 0.3.5 is now available. This update:
- Fixes a bug that caused metric forecasts to be overwritten by fahrenheit values.
- Fixes a bug that caused some installations to fail on ascii encoding.

As always, please post questions and problems here.
Dave

@Colin:

Please do me a favor and inspect the custom states for one of your weather devices--do you see blocks of states for:

alertDescription[1-4]
alertExpires[1-4]
alertMessage[1-4]
alertStatus[1-4]

Thanks,
Dave

HI Dave,
Yes I do. Obviously I don't see the errors if I turn off debugging, sorry I forgot to mention that.

Colin

@haavarda - I have figured out what was causing the celcius forecast to come through as fahrenheit. The plugin was downloading the metric forecast properly, but this value was then being instantly overwritten with fahrenheit values.

This will be fixed in v0.3.5.

Sorry for the trouble.
Dave

It works now. Thank your for the update. My HI/LOW are now presented in C.
Can you or someone else point me in the right direction on how to show weather icons with data from Wunderground?

regards